Tibetan proverbs
Proverbs from all Tibetan speaking parts of the world.
- If one is eloquent in speech
Even the hills nod in agreement
If one is harsh in words
Even the hills grimace in anger.- "When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it."
- A.A Milne, The House at Pooh Corner Chapter Six - "In which Pooh invents a new game and Eeyore joins in". (1928)
- Phemba, Lhamo Tibetan proverbs (1996)